Shakespeare's "King Lear," so grand ... the duped Gloucester (the fine James Blendick) sees love where there is hate, hate where there is love. Many of the major characters must undergo ...

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Christopher Plummer was nominated but did not win.

Another character who was a joy to watch was ... the show and they are typically amazing. To accompany King Lear, they served "Gloucester's Eye Blood," and it was, unsurprisingly, amazing.

After Ionesco’s absurdist 'Exit the King,' Geoffrey Rush and director ... The heath is a void here, only momentarily escaped when Lear and Gloucester take refuge in a farmhouse, elegantly ...

Optimist Theatre’s just-opened production of “King Lear ... his characters. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. One therefore gets little sense of Lear’s ...

The first plot involves Gloucester and his two sons ... intentionally or not, is tragic. “King Lear” ends with almost all the characters dying, but because this is a play – a fiction ...

Running under two hours, Amazon's version of William Shakespeare's 'King Lear ... as Gloucester and Kent, while Christopher Eccleston makes for an unexpectedly memorable Oswald, a character ...

If there’s an actor in King Lear who’s attempting to go deep as he drives forward, it’s Kloska. His Gloucester, though conspicuously young — everyone’s young, even Branagh, whose not ...

His way into the character is less as a broken monarch than a flawed but loving father. Being a king seems almost to get in the way of that purpose. Lear ... notably in Gloucester’s speech ...

For King Lear, perhaps ... Mike Hartman, who plays Gloucester, is a terrific actor, but he never quite conveys the full horror and revelation of the character's long journey into darkness; his ...

IN Shakespeare’s tragedies, somelimcs the gigantic phrases, thrown up by passion, have the character of those ... Or, as in King Lear, the words seem thunderbolts, hurled from the heart of ...